"Brandon Woodruff will not pitch in the NLDS, Pat Murphy said. But the good news is that the lat issue is separate from the shoulder repair. Brewers are not ruling out Woodruff pitching later in the postseason if they advance."

Following the most competitive Wild-Card Round to date, the Major League Baseball playoffs are down to the final eight teams, with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs and ** having advanced, while the Milwaukee Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays, Philadelphia Phillies and Seattle Mariners coming off of the bye.

The fact that the Brewers play the winner of the wild-card series between the Chicago Cubs and the San Diego Padres may be part of the reason for the doubt. The Brewers are a combined 8-11 against those two teams. However, they're also a combined 10-2 against the Philadelphia Philles and the Los Angeles Dodgers, the NL teams with better odds.

The Milwaukee Brewers are set to take on the Chicago Cubs on Saturday for Game 1 of the NLDS after a historic regular season saw them finish with 97 wins, the most in franchise history. The Brewers featured one of the most well-rounded teams, with the club excelling at the plate and on the mound.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/mlb/brewers as Brewers Have Interesting Case To Win First World Series This October.

With NLDS opening Saturday in Milwaukee, maybe some pressure has shifted to Brewers? The Cubs are just a plucky wild-card team, after all.

The public loves the Dodgers and the Brewers to win the World Series. What do the odds and the experts have to say?

Following their three-game win over the San Diego Padres in the National League Wild Card Series, the Chicago Cubs have moved on to the NLDS for the first time

In the wild-card series that determines who the Brewers will play in the NLDS, the San Diego Padres got 15 votes and the Chicago Cubs 10. In the NLDS, the experts gave the Brewers a narrow edge, 13-11, over the Padres, with only one picking the Cubs.